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Sandy One Year Later: City Takes Steps To Improve Evacuation, Shelter Process During Storms
2013-10-24 04:16:29| Railroads - Topix.net
Among the many changes that have taken place in the year since Hurricane Sandy, hundreds of thousands more New Yorkers now live in evacuation zones.
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We must face up to the rising threat from coastal storms
2013-10-17 14:36:25| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: India felt the full force of Cyclone Phailin last weekend the strongest storm in the country for well over a decade. The hardest hit areas Andhra Pradesh and Orissa experienced widespread devastation, especially in coastal parts. The storm came almost a year after Hurricane Sandy caused such destruction in the Americas. These events were disasters in their own rights and a warning: there are good reasons to believe that storms could pose a bigger threat in the future. Not only are they likely...
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Taking a Bite Out of Storms
2013-10-01 19:49:00| Transmission & Distribution World
In all the storms Ive worked or covered, electric utilities respond quickly and appropriately. We know that storm restoration and hardening takes solid planning, drilling and execution, but it also takes a substantial investment. read more
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Global Warming to Cause Increase in US Severe Storms, Researchers Report
2013-09-24 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A new climate analysis led by scientists at Stanford University suggests that severe thunderstorms in the United States are likely to increase over the next century as a result of global warming. According the the researchers, severe thunderstorms are one of the primary causes of catastrophic losses in the US, with damage from destructive rainfall, hail and tornadoes resulting in billions of dollars in damages. Last year alone, 11 weather-related events in the US exceeded the $1 billion threshold...
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Warming could heat up storms over eastern US
2013-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: In May, residents of Tornado Alley braced themselves as the region's usual spring thunderstorms began popping up across the plains, bringing heavy rainfall that caused flash floods, high winds, hail and tornadoes. On May 20, the town of Moore, Okla., seemingly a perennial tornado target, was struck by a monster storm that was 1.3 miles (2 kilometers) wide at its peak, carving a 17-mile-long (27 km) path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb with winds that reached 210 mph (338 km/h). While...
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